#NationalRollercoasterDay

[rabbitcruiser]

National Roller Coaster Day 

See if any of the amusement parks or fairgrounds near you offer a special deal on Rollercoaster Day, and get your adrenaline pumping on that stomach-dropping dive.

National Roller Coaster Day is celebrated annually on the 16th August. The origins of the celebration are not completely clear, however, the most widely believed explanation for National Roller Coaster Day is that the date was chosen to mark the 16th August, 1898.

Which was when the very first patent for a rollercoaster ride was issued. The date has been marked by fairgrounds and fans of rollercoasters all over the world since the eighties.

Learn about National Roller Coaster Day

National Roller Coaster Day was created in order to celebrate these fun and thrilling rides that you can enjoy when you go to a theme park. It is the perfect opportunity for you to have some fun and take a ride on a rollercoaster near you.

Rollercoasters tend to be found in theme parks and amusement parks all around the world. They employ some sort of railroad track, which is elevated and designed with inversions, steep slopes, and tight turns. People ride along the track in open cars, enjoying a thrilling experience. Most rollercoasters will have a number of different cars whereby passengers sit inside of them and are restrained. However, there are Wild Mouse rollercoasters and other types of rollercoasters that run with a single car.

Fun facts about rollercoasters

There are some great facts about the rollercoasters of today and the past. For example, in Pennsylvania, there is a wooden rollercoaster that was built in 1902 and it is still in operation today. It is called Leap-The-Dips and you can find it at Altoona. It does not have headrests, lap bars, or seatbelts, but don’t worry, as it only goes ten miles per hour.

Have you ever wondered why some people love rollercoasters and other people hate them? Well, it could be to do with the chemical makeup of your brain. From the spirals to the drops, dips, speed, turns, hills, and loops; there is no denying that rollercoasters are thrilling! However, those with higher levels of dopamine tend to prefer sensation-seeking activities. Dopamine are neurotransmitters that are linked to reward-motivated behavior.

If you want to go on the world’s longest rollercoaster, you are going to need to take a trip to Japan. Here, you will find Nagashima Spa Land, and the longest rollercoaster here is the Steel Dragon 2000. When it opened, it was the longest, tallest, and fastest rollercoaster in the world. This was back in 2000. Since then, it has had a couple of its crowns stolen, yet it is still the world’s longest rollercoaster. Today, the fastest rollercoaster in the world can be found in Abu Dhabi at Ferrari World. It’s called Formula Rossa. The tallest rollercoaster in the world today is in Jackson, New Jersey. It is called Kingda Ka and it is found at Six Flags Great Adventure.

The future of rollercoasters certainly looks exciting as well, as it promises roller coaster-water slide mashups, as well as cars that rotate. Amusement park technologies are being patented all of the time, and this can help you to get a good understanding of what lies ahead in the world of rollercoasters.

History of National Roller Coaster Day

The day has been chosen because it commemorates the first vertical loop rollercoaster, which was patented on this date in 1898 by Edwin Prescott. In order to appreciate National Roller Coaster Day, it is worth digging deeper into the history of this popular theme park ride.

It is believed that the oldest rollercoasters have come from the Russian Mountains, which are a number of hills of ice that were specially constructed in what is now known as Saint Petersburg. These rollercoasters were constructed in the 17th century. They were reinforced with wooden supports, had a 50-degree drop, and were built to a height of somewhere between 21 and 24 meters.

It was on the 8th of July in 1817 that the first modern rollercoaster was created. It opened in Paris, in Parc Beaujon, and it was called Promenades Aeriennes. It featured wheeled cars, which were locked onto the track securely, offering higher speeds and guide rails to keep them on course. Half a dozen imitators were created as a consequence, yet their popularity dwindled rather quickly.

Nevertheless, rollercoasters quickly returned to fashion during Belle Epoque. Co-founder of the Moulin Rouge music hall, French entrepreneur Joseph Oller, constructed the Russian Mountains of Belleville in 1887, known locally as the Montagnes Russes de Belleville. It featured 656 feet worth of track that was laid out in a double-eight, which was later made bigger, creating four figure-eight shaped loops.

The popularity and decline of rollercoasters have varied over the years. The golden age of theme parks, and consequently rollercoasters, came to end during the Great Depression. This lasted until 1972 when The Racer at Kings Island was an instant success. Of course, it would not be right to talk about rollercoasters and theme parks without mentioning Disneyland. The park had a breakthrough in terms of design with Matterhorn Bobsleds. This is because it was the first-ever rollercoaster to utilize a steel track. This was important because tubular steel can be bent in any direction, which is obviously not the case with wooden coaster rails. This means that steel rollercoasters enable designers to incorporate corkscrews, loops, and a lot of other maneuvers into their designs. Most of the different rollercoasters that are available around the world today are still made of steel, yet hybrids and wooden coasters are still being created.

How to celebrate National Roller Coaster Day

Many of the biggest amusement parks and fairgrounds across the USA and beyond choose to offer special deals to visitors on the 16th August. These often involve a reduction in ticket prices or the chance to buy one ticket and get another free.

Some parks promote the celebration in order to attract more people in on this particular date. For many of the world’s biggest rollercoaster fans, this is a celebration that can not afford to be missed! As such, enthusiasts will take a take off work in order to make sure they ride a rollercoaster on the 16th August!

If you are not going to be able to make it to a theme park on this date, there are still some other ways that you can celebrate National Roller Coaster Day. Why not spend some time online finding out more about some of the world’s most popular rollercoasters? You will find that there are some pretty incredible rollercoasters in theme parks all over the world, and so you can even make a bucket list of the different rollercoasters you would most like to go on.

National Roller Coaster Day also presents you with a good opportunity to learn more about rollercoasters. Dig deeper into the science behind these incredible structures and the curves that defy gravity. It is really interesting to learn about how they work.

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[freezecrowd]

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[jjwphotography1990]

For National Roller Coaster Day, we have the Incredible Hulk Coaster! The Hulk is one of the most well known coasters on earth! The roller coaster is amazing and one of the most popular attractions in Orlando. I really like the redesign that was done to the ride a couple years ago.

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Marvel Superhero Island at Islands of Adventure.

Taken at the Orlando Informer Meetup 2019.

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[horrororman]

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Final Destination 3 (2006).

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[aquagrand]

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

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[walt-at-disneyland]

Happy #NationalRollercoasterDay! (and #MatterhornMonday too!) Here's Walt during a test run of the Matterhorn before the mountain was completed. Sitting in front is Admiral Joe Fowler, who oversaw the initial construction of Disneyland, and was the General Manager of the park for it's first 10 years. He later moved to Florida and was instrumental in the construction of Walt Disney World. #matterhorn #matterhornbobsleds #Walt #waltdisney #disneyside #disneyland #d23 #disneylandresort #disneylandpark #disneyworld #magickingdom #vintage #vintagedisneyland #happiestplaceonearth #fantasyland #Anaheim #disneygram (at Disneyland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSpmR1OBV-X/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hagleyvault]

August 16th is National Roller Coaster Day, in commemoration of the issuance of the first U.S. patent for a vertical loop roller coaster, issued to Edwin Prescott on this day in 1898. Prescott’s Loop the Loop coaster was a dual-tracked steel roller coaster installed at Coney Island, New York from 1901 to 1910.

Hagley Library is observing the day with these selections from Edward C. Boyce’s Modern Amusement Parks, a circa 1905 publication showing rides and attractions (including these roller coasters!) at the White City in Chicago, Dreamland in Coney Island, the White City in New Haven, Connecticut, and other locations and attractions constructed by the Edward C. Boyce Co.

This pamphlet is f Pam 2001.207 in the Hagley Library’s collection of trade catalogs and pamphlets. You can view other digitized material from this collection by visiting its page in our Digital Archives, or view this pamphlet in particular by clicking here.

[vanishedchicagoland]

Today is National Roller Coaster Day! Here is a photo of The Comet Roller Coaster at Riverview Park in Chicago. The photo was taken in the 1960s. @marcusleshock #nationalrollercoasterday #nationalrollercoasterday🎢 https://www.instagram.com/p/B1O86cihbnh/?igshid=158a1aemlnyjq

[mkmoondust]

Happy #NationalRollerCoasterDay - and even though I'm no where near a functional roller coaster as I write this - here are some of my favorite recentish photos to celebrate. Featuring @palmieri.sophie @riaz6548 @nicopalmieri and @pineappleking2323 plus special shout out to @mudgie13 who I recently learned is also a fan of coasters!!! What are some of your favorite roller coasters? https://www.instagram.com/p/ChWAemJLEPs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rgrrabbit1]

Happy National Roller Coaster Day! Here’s Jenny and I on California Screamin’ before it closed to be transformed into Incredicoaster! I’m not a fan of crazy roller coasters so for me to get on Screamin’ was very brave of me! #NationalRollerCoasterDay #RollerCoasterDay #CaliforniaScreamin #DisneyCaliforniaAdventure #DCA #ParadisePier #Disneyland #DisneylandResort #DisneyFan #DisneyFun #DisneyLife #DisneyLove #DisneyGeek #DisneyMagic #DisneylandMagicKey #MagicKeyHolder #MagicKey #DreamKey #FollowJoy https://www.instagram.com/p/ChV9f8ILJSw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[termsoflife]

On National Roller Coaster Day, August 16, take a ride on one and get a thrill a minute!

[rabbitcruiser]

National Roller Coaster Day

Each year on August 16th, you will find people at amusement parks and theme parks across the country participating in National Roller Coaster Day.

J.G. Taylor received one of the earliest patents for an inclined railway in 1872.  In 1878, Richard Knudsen received a patent for an inclined-plane railway.  For years, history has believed the first roller coaster in America opened at Coney Island on June 16, 1884.

Thanks to the digital age and many archived news papers being digitized, and article was discovered reporting the anticipated excitement of J.G. Taylor’s elevated railway in 1872 at Rocky Point, Rhode Island. According to the Providence Evening Press from June 18, 1872, the reporter describes a ride of 400 feet where nine passengers are given a shove and gravity does the rest.  

The oldest roller coasters are believed to have originated from the so-called “Russian Mountains.”  Built in the 17th century, these were specially constructed hills of ice that were located near Saint Petersburg, Russia.  The slides were made to a height of 70 to 80 feet consisting of a 50-degree drop and were reinforced by wooden supports.

A roller coaster consists of one or multiple cars on a track, similar to a specialized railroad system that rises in designed patterns, sometimes with one or more vertical loops.

HOW TO OBSERVE

Celebrate by visiting an amusement park near you and enjoying a roller coaster ride. If you cannot get to a roller coaster, make plans for your next roller coaster adventure!

HISTORY

National Roller Coaster Day has been celebrated since a 1986 proclamation by a national newspaper according to the website nationalrollercoasterday.com. However, we were unable to identify the newspaper or the reason for proclaiming the day on August 16. None of the patents issued either to Richard Knudsen, J.G. Taylor or any other inventor of their time were applied for or granted on that date. None of the roller coasters opened on that date. Whatever the reason, National Roller Coaster Day recognizes the amazing thrills the rides continue to provide as well as nostalgic feelings they stir up.

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[erictanart]

Talk about a bucket list moment! Ever since i was a kid walking through the entrance tunnels to Disneyland, I’ve always been fascinated by the attraction posters on those tunnel walls. They got me so excited to get into the park and ride those rides. When I started designing posters for Disney & Pixar films, it was always in the back of my mind that maybe someone from Imagineering would notice them and get me to work on an attraction poster for one of the parks. Well that process took about 20 years but I’m so glad I finally got the opportunity. @thechubbymermaid had a clear vision of what she wanted the poster for the Incredicoaster to convey and it was so much fun to add some of my ideas and style to the final layout. I still have yet to ride the new coaster but I hope i captured the fun and excitement of it with my 1st attraction poster for #disneycaliforniaadventure ! @pixar #incredibles #incredibles2 #incredicoaster #nationalrollercoasterday (at Disney California Adventure Park)

[bmaatuga]

National Roller Coaster Day

At last! We have an answer to a question that has stumped us for a long time. What the heck is this wooden roller coaster for cars?  Frank Sheffield of Americus, Georgia, filmed it in 1930 on a trip to St. Louis.

Last year we posted about the auto coaster: https://bmaatuga.tumblr.com/post/187057041187/a-national-roller-coaster-day-puzzle and then did a little more digging. Once we’d figured out what they were called, we found a few references to them online. Whoopee Coasters were made by the Coaster Construction Co. in Lyons, Illinois, and in Kansas City, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Seattle. The Suburban Amusement Company made one in Schiller Park, IL. There was one made by the American Amusement Corporation near the Cleveland Airport in Ohio, and there was one in Los Angeles in 1929. Rides cost 10 cents. You may find more of them if you do some more digging online.

Frank filmed events along his trip. He takes a motor boat ride on the Missouri River or the Mississippi River (can anyone identify which river and where on the river they are?), and stops to take a look at a glider plane at Harry Kuchins St. Louis Glider Club. Frank was a flying enthusiast, so of course he stopped at a glider club.  But then we see that wooden auto coaster that so fascinated us. It shows up around 47:35 in to this reel of compiled footage:  https://bmac.libs.uga.edu/pawtucket2/index.php/Detail/objects/38687

Now, thanks to the kind assistance of Miranda Rectenwald, the Curator of Local History in Special Collections at Washington University-St. Louis, we now know that this auto coaster was definitely called a Whoopee Auto Coaster, and we know who built it!  Miranda found this article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of July 8, 1930 that gives us location and provenance!

According to a question in Jerry Berger’s newspaper column, “St. Louis Q&A”, the Whoopee Coaster was at St. Charles Rock Road near Brown Road.  And the amusement park, Westlake Park, was at St. Charles Rock Road and Natural Bridge Road. Both of these locations are very close to the Lambert Field, St. Louis’s airport. This fits nicely with Frank’s interest in flying airplanes. He may have known someone at the airport and maybe took a flight while he was in the neighborhood.

J.P. Pearson, builder of this coaster, shows up quickly in online searching. He was president of a hardwood flooring and lumber mill in Oneida, TN, founded in 1906; it makes perfect sense that he’d want to make some money on the wooden Whoopee Coaster craze while it was hot. The coasters had some safety issues and were mostly gone in a few years. Thanks to archived home movies, the one in St. Louis lives on!

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